Pneumococcal Vaccination in Rheumatic Diseases.

نویسندگان

  • Rohini Handa
  • Ved Chaturvedi
  • Debashish Danda
  • V Krishnamurthy
چکیده

1Senior Consultant Rheumatologist, Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, New Delhi; 2Chief consultant rheumatology DGMS (Army), Army Hospital, R and R, New Delhi; 3Professor & Head Clinical Immunology & Rheumatology Christian Medical College & Hospital, Vellore, India and Editor in Chief, International Journal of Rheumatic Diseases (Formerly the APLAR Journal of Rheumatology), Vice President, Asia Pacific League of Associations for Rheumatology; 4Consultant Rheumatologist, Apollo Specialty Hospital, Chennai & Chennai Meenakshi Mutispecialty Hospital. Introduction

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • The Journal of the Association of Physicians of India

دوره 63 4 Suppl  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2015